Woodenhead

I chose the fairy tale because it provides an easy-to-follow plot. The filming technique was already experimental enough and I wanted to give the audience something they could sink their teeth into.

– Writer/director Florian Habicht in The NZ Herald, 10 February 2004

This is a dark, fantasy-drenched New Zealand. It breathes with the black and white sensuousness of our geography and speaks with a sobering and surreal continental accent. The result is absurdist, with tinges of French surrealism akin to Jean Genet and the moral sensibilities of Rimbaud let loose in a sex shop.

– NZ Herald writer Frederico Monsalve, 10 February 2004

Like the overdubbing of foreign language films which has developed cult status, Woodenhead capitalises on the delays and off-beats between image and sound, offering surrealist ‘flaws’ that heighten psychological and narrative tension...

– Description of Woodenhead, from the exhibition Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, held at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in May 2010